Utility to Plant 1 Million Trees in Arkansas for Carbon [Scam] Offsets - ArkansasBusiness.com

Duke Energy has announced plans to plant 1 million trees on about 1,700 acres in Arkansas to help the electric power company generate carbon offsets.

The tree planting is part of the "GreenTrees" program, which seeks to reforest 1 million acres in seven states, most of them in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Duke Energy, based in Charlotte, N.C., is the lead investor in the program.

"The program is expected to generate high-quality, verifiable carbon offsets that Duke Energy believes will help reduce the overall cost of compliance with federal climate change legislation," a company press release said.

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Yet if any topic illustrates the need to separate the dry, cautious and complex study of empirical reality from a moralised public debate being used to further the social power of a variety of interest groups – the very distinction which is at the heart of Alcabes’ book – it is the panic about global warming. From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the reinvention of political loser Al Gore to the distortion of research funding and the downplaying of human welfare in the name of the planet, the climate crusade epitomises everything that Alcabes writes about. Contrary to what Alcabes suggests, for many climate change warriors there is, indeed, a single element responsible for screwing up the planet: humanity. Separating environmental problems, of which there are many of varying degrees of importance, from the misanthropic mindset of environmentalism is just the kind of thing that the method that informs Dread could help us to achieve.

The Climate Post: Climate scam failure in Copenhagen foreshadowed

Expectations for a conclusive deal have diminished over the last several months.
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Reuters interviews Gao Guangsheng, a top official in the National Coordination Committee for Climate Change, who acknowledges flexibility in the Chinese position. “I think Copenhagen may not be the final negotiation. It may set policy intentions so that we can keep negotiating,” he said.